Have you ever needed to create multiple indexes for either a feature class or mosaic dataset? The Add Indexes script tools help you speed up that process by automatically creating indexes for the fields you select. The Add Feature Class Indexes script tool adds attribute indexes to an existing feature class or overwrites its existing indexes. The Add Mosaic Dataset Indexes script tool adds attribute indexes to an existing mosaic dataset or overwrites its existing indexes. Continue reading →

Have you ever needed to create rectangular features that are defined by their geographic extent? This script tool can help you speed up that process by automatically creating the polygon features using an input file with the north, south, east, and west extents. The Create Envelopes script tool was developed to create polygon features for the mapped areas of scanned map images—we call these features envelopes. While this tool was developed for a particular workflow, it can be used to create any set of regular polygon features if the bounds of the polygons are known.

When we talk about scientific data, the term is kind of a catch-all that really refers to three data formats commonly used in the scientific community: NetCDF, HDF, and GRIB. If a normal raster is a grid where each block … Continue reading →

If you create a mosaic dataset in a file geodatabase on a Windows machine, and then copy it over to a Linux machine, your paths within the mosaic dataset will be incorrect. To publish the Windows mosaic dataset as an … Continue reading →

A derived mosaic dataset is a mosaic dataset that is created from adding other mosaic datasets into it. When populating a derived mosaic dataset, it is okay to use either the Raster Dataset or Table as your raster type. The … Continue reading →

There’s a lot of tiled imagery out there that gets delivered to people without any coordinates stored with the files. Often the coordinate information exists but it’s stored in a table. So how do you view it in ArcGIS. Continue reading →

This blog is based on a true story from a forum post. Hopefully it will help others that have the same issue. Problem: I have created a mosaic dataset and added a raster in it. Then I opened the attributes … Continue reading →